because so many people have been engaged by the sandy hook massacre. whatever the nra spends, people that want sensible gun safety laws are going to spend three, four, five times as much. and mika, also the argument that there's a slippery slope and if you get rid of these military-style assault weapons, and the magazines, the high-capacity magazines, that you somehow don't love or support the second amendment, well, that would suggest the same of ronald reagan, of ant then scalia, clarence thomas, justice roberts, samuel alito, all these hard-core conservatives who said the second amendment is not about protecting somebody's right to have military-style assault weapons. >> so the question is, you've got the power of the nra versus the power of the emotional force, richard, you were talking about. and kelly, the president outlined 23 executive orders. tell us about those. but first, what do you make, and what are you hearing on capitol hill about the possibility of this legislation as it stands, as he presented it, going through? >> well, one of the th